Sanctuary-lamp.



L. M. WILDE.

SAN CTUARY LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.11,1909.

Patented May 24, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS M. WILDE, OF NORTH WALPOLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SANCTUARY-LAMP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS M. WILDE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of North Walpole, in the county of Cheshire and State of NewHampshire, have invented a new and Improved Sanctuary-Lamp, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention is an improvement in sanctuary lamps and has in view amotor-driven mechanism to trim the carbon from the lamp wick during theburning of the lamp, the said mechanism being inaudible in action andassembled compactly with the lamp proper.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 illustrates a sanctuary lamp as suspended from the ceiling andembodyingand 3, wherein are shown my improvements in detail, two disksor plates 5, 5, arranged one above the other in spaced relation andrigidly secured together by the thimble bolts 6, and a plate 7 arrangedbelow and similarly secured to the plates above, constitute the frame ofa clock mechanism. The plate 7 is confined to one side of the frame andcarries a spring motor 8, the winding shaft of which projects below theframe and is provided with a gear 9 meshing with a pinion 10 arranged onthe winding stem 11. The motor extends some distance above the bottomplate 5 of the frame, where it is provided with a relatively largedriving gear 12 meshing with a much smaller gear 13 secured to avertical shaft 1 1, the shaft projecting above the top plate 5 of theframe, where it has an attached gear 15. The shaft 11 is furtherprovided with a gear 16 which drives an escapement mechanism through thetrain of gearing, as shown in dotted outline in Fig. 2. Passingcentrally through the plates 5, 5 and rigid therewith is a wick tube 17,the same standing some distance above the top plate 5, where it iscounterbored and internally threaded to receive the threaded boss on thelower end of a tubular burner 18, the external diameter of theSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 11, 1909.

Patented May 24, 1910.

Serial No. 517,191.

this shoulder and the top plate 5 is the hub portion of a gear 20journaled on the wick tube and in mesh with the gear 15, the gear 20having a vertical socket 21 projecting from its upper face. The socket21' receives the shaft of a wick trimmer 22, the trimmer having anoverhanging trimming finger 23 at its upper end and adjustably securedat difierent elevations in the socket by a setscrew 24.

In Fig. 1 I have shown a conventional type of mounting for the lamp, thesame embodying a pendant or vessel 25 suitably suspended from theceiling and having a fuel tank arranged above the same and feeding thewick tube through one of the tubular hangers 27. The burner trimmer atthe top of the upper plate 5 is supported in the vessel to stand abovethe top thereof, and inclosed by a chimney 28. Below the top plate 5,the structure shown in Fig. 8 is inclosed by the upper portion of thevessel, the latter having an opening in the side, through which the stem11 is accessible for winding the motor.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. The combination of frame plates rigidly secured together in spacedrelation, a motor carried by said plates, a vertical wick tube passingcentrally through the frame plates and having a burner, a vertical shaftjournaled in the frame plates and driven from the motor, having anattached gear arranged above the upper plate, an escapement, mechanismdriven from. the vertical shaft, a gear ournaled on the wick tube and inmesh with the first mentioned gear, having a socket, and a wick trimmervertically adjustable in said socket and having a trimming fingeroverhanging the burner.

2. The combination of frame plates rigidly secured together in spacedrelation, a verticallyarranged wick tube passing through said plates andhaving a burner above the upper plate, a wick trimmer revoluble aboutthe burner, and a clock mechanism carried by said plates and operativelyconnected to the wick trimmer.

3. The combination of an upper, lower and intermediate frame platerigidly secured together in spaced relation, a wick tube passingcentrally through the intermediate and upper plate and having a burnerat the upper end portion thereof, a motor carried on the upper and lowerplate and eX- tending above the intermediate plate, a winding mechanismfor the motor, arranged below the lower plate, a wick trimmer revolubleabout the burner, means for driving the wick trimmer from the motor, andan eseapement mechanism arranged between the upper and intermediateplates and driven from said means.

4. The combination of frame plates rigidly secured together in spacedrelation, a wick tube passing vertically through said plates, amotor-actuated mechanism carried by the plates and having a drivenmember journaled on the wick tube, and a wick trimmer carried by saidmember.

5. The combination in a lamp, of a burner, a wick trimmer revolubleabout the burner and normally engaging the wick, and a clock mechanismoperatively connected to the wick trimmer to move the trimmercontinuously over the wick.

6. The combination of a pendant, a lamp arranged within the pendanthaving a burner projecting thereabove, a wick trimmer revoluble aboutthe burner, a motor operatively connected to the wick trimmer, and meansto wind the motor from the outside of the pendant.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEVIS M. VILDE.

\Vitnesses:

ERNEST E. MOORE, ALMON I. BoLLEs.

